Bethesda and Carlsberg Release ‘Fallout’ Beer for Pre-Order

Earlier this morning, Bethesda Softworks and Danish brewing company Carlsberg announced a new collaboration between the worlds of gaming and brewing: Fallout Beer.

Bethesda timed the pilsner lager’s release to generate “buzz” for Fallout 4, which comes out November 10 for PC, Playstation 4, and Xbox One.

This isn’t the first attempt to join video games with alcoholic beverages: In 1983, Bally/Midway released a game called Tapper, in which players served Budweiser by filling up mugs and sliding them across a bar table.

But even Tapper had a non-alcoholic alternative, called Root Beer Tapper. Some Fallout fans on Reddit wish Bethesda had given them a soda instead of a beer—based on the game’s most popular drink: Nuka-Cola.

“The Nuka-Cola Challenge” quest in Fallout 3 (Bethesda Softworks)

A few months ago, Fallout fans created a Change.org petition to demonstrate their interest in the soda—which has almost 5,000 signatures so far. (User Ashenox points out that they already sell a version of the cola in the Netherlands, but the shipping costs might not be worth it.)

One ambitious fan, who didn’t feel like waiting on Coca-Cola to make the soda, turned the idea into a DIY project.

Using classic Coke for the regular cola and Frost Glacier Freeze-flavored Gatorade for the Quantum version, Reddit user beastwood929 recreated the game’s drinks: